"Transsexuality" and gender ratio in Poland

A case study on the East/West dichotomy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3666824
AutoresLudmiła Janion (0000-0002-7325-1172, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen70
Número11
Páginas2539-2559
Fecha de publicación2023-09-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2022.2071135
PMID35575760
OpenAlexW4280599583
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas41

The article investigates scientific and journalistic discourses around differences in gender ratio among trans persons. The disparity between Poland and many other countries that was first noted in the 1980s was repeatedly associated with the different gender politics in the capitalist West and the (post) state-socialist East. Using Foucauldian methodology, the article claims that this discourse was constructed such that Poland's ratio-and consequently Poland's gender order-would always appear problematic, while Western countries were considered an invisible standard. Discourses around this ratio elucidate the role of heteronormativity and biological essentialism in the construction of the category of "transsexuality" in state-socialist Poland. The analysis also reveals that chronologies of LGBT and feminist movements had direct consequences for the theoretical and cultural spaces of trans identities

Essentialism · Gender equality · Heteronormativity · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · State (computer science · European history and politics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy